Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-12-30
INEXPENSIVE LIVING.
How n Healthy Person Can Live and
Grow Fat on u Dime a Day.


At the gathering of scientists in CO.
lumbia College a learned professor
fascinated his superintendent hear
ers by telling them that laboring
man needs daily one-fourth pound
of proteine, one fourth pound fat, and
pound of carbohydrate" to keep
him we'll and strong. If the knowl-
edge-seekin ing laborer goes TO the store
for his four ounces of proteine his ex-
pertinent will scarcely increase his
+ 18th in the marketing knowledge OF
scientists. What the laborer and what
most of us need more than technical
ESSAYS on the physiological and
Fecundary Economy of Food" is a
plain talk about sensible feeding and
economical marketing.
'.How to live and thrive on dime
per day" may stand as the text for
this talk. 1t certainly can be done,
and. though the experiment may be
uninviling, it is certain that good
health is nearer akin to the simplest
diet than to the costliest
proteine. Tell him that three-fourths
of his weight is water, and that to re-
store the days waste he has to take
food, threc-fourths of which must be
water. and the remainder flcsh-form-
ing, heat-giving and bone-making sub
stances, he will understand the case
better Give him a table of foods,
analysed to show just how much heat
giving, flesh-forming and mineral mat
ter there is in each food, AMI he will
soon take as deep an interest in what
he eats because of its worth to him as
because OF its taste. When he finds
out-as he can in half an hour-that
only twenty-four parts in every hun
dred of butchers meat count as flesh
formers. the rest being water. but that
from seventy-five to ninety parts out
of every hundred in dried peas. beans.
Oat and wheat meals and cheese are
nutritious, and only ten to twenty-five
parts waste water he from that mo-
ment begins to use his common sense
in feeding as he does in earning his
living. The popular rule is: Never pay
any heed to the feeding value of our
diet; let us cultivate a glorious ig-
norance of the purpose of foods and go
in might and main for palate -ticklers
and dyspepsia
just fact or two as appetizers.
The great Peninsular and Oriental (P.
and O. Steamship Company employ
East Indian coolies to do the hardest
work on their steamers because they
are stronger, healthier and Stand the
climate better than Englishmen, and
because not being meat eaters-their
diet costs only six cents per day.
There are miners in the English coal
pits the hardest workers in the land,
who have not eaten any kind of meat
for years. l am not a vegetarian, be-
cause | banker after the flesh pots.
and their savory odors cast spell
over my innocent soul; yet expert
mented for one whole year without
tasting flesh or gravy in any form, and
all the time my health was perfect and
my weight increased. The dock por-
tiers of Constantinople carry heavier
burdens-two hundred and fifty pounds
and upward-more easily than the
laborers of En- gland and America, vet
their main diet is bread and figs, and
they are teetotal and vegetarian. The
laborers in Spain live chiefly on bread
and onions. and are marvelously
strong
The flesli-and-blood superstition is
baseless. A horse is almost as strong.
swift, healthy and handsome rs two
legged man, and they both have the
same internal machinery; the one eats
beef and enjoys dyspepsia. the other
avoids it and Hourishes. Ten cents
worth or meat, oatmeal, rice. fruits,
butIermilk. bread, cheese, onions or
portions of several of these, will enable
a man to do his ordinary days work
at least as well as any assortment of
goods he can buy for dollar
What-would be a good diet for those
who do not need to study their purses,
yet who would like simple. healthy
and enjoy able dietaryP To such I
would say drop the heavy meat break
fast right away. Not tn at meat is bad.
but 1t IS not the best to start the day
on. Bread (not the spoiled white
stuff but the natural dark-colored
wheat, as ground), tea or cocoa, eggs
and the hundred and one non-fesh
dishes, with little fish, and as much
fruit as you like. That model meal.
as experience will prove.
Talking If fish. the more the better.
Pound for pound it is as nutritious as
flesh, though it doesn't seem to fill us
SO fully, and its chemical value is far
above that of meats. When l have
extra hard brain work to do, say an
average of twelve or fourteen hours
for two or three weeks at a stretch, l
knock off meats entirely and eat all
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